USA Soccer Team Roster Players Squad 2018 – The USA has come one of the great powers in football since the 1980s. Officially, they are called as USA Football team. So far, USA has never won the World Cup or other championships in the World in international level of football. However, they have ever achieved some big games and achievements in football. If you want to know more about their history, it will be better to pay attention to the discussion below.

Basic Information about USA Football Team
The United States of America Football Team has some nicknames. The first is “Yanks”. Besides that, they are also well known as “The Stars & Stripes” which refers to their national flag. Then, they are also called as “the Red”. Another nickname is “White and Blue”. The football association is United States Soccer Federation. They played in the World Cup for the first time is 1930 and in Confederation Cup in 1992.

USA Soccer Team in the World Cup
The best achievement of USA national football team is to reach the semifinal. Unfortunately, it was reached in their first World Cup participation long years ago, 1930. After that, they have never reached semifinal or better stage. But they have a big respect from other national teams in the era of 1990 until the latest World Cup because they have some good football players. As the result, they reached the big of 16 four times and the quarter final once.

USA Football Team in Other Competitions
In Copa America, USA football team has ever reached the fourth rank in 1995 and the rest is not satisfying enough. Actually, they have some good achievements but in CONCACAF Gold Cup only. They won it 4 times in 1991, 2002, 2005 and 2007. They also got runner ups 3 times in 1993, 1998 and 2009. Overall, they show good performance in football recently.

Some Notes of USA Football Team in Matches
United States of America national football team made their international debut match on November 28th in 1885 against Canada where they lose 1-0. However, it was not an official match. For the official match, they first played the international match against Sweden on August 20th in 1926 where they won with the score of 2-3. They also have some records such as the biggest won against Cayman with the score of 8-1. However, their biggest loss is against England on the score of 0-10. If you want to know about USA Squad 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualification, follow this table.

USA National Football Soccer Team Roster:

Player

Birthdate

Club

Goalkeeper

Jesse Gonzalez

5/25/1995

FC Dallas

Tim Howard

03/06/1979

Colorado Rapids

Bill Hamid

11/25/1990

D.C. United

Defender

Omar Gonzalez

10/11/1988

Pachuca (Mexico)

Matt Besler

02/11/1987

Sporting Kansas City

Justin Morrow

10/04/1987

Toronto FC (Canada)

Jorge Villafaña

9/16/1989

Santos Laguna (Mexico)

Graham Zusi

8/18/1986

Sporting Kansas City

Matt Hedges

04/01/1990

FC Dallas

Eric Lichaj

11/17/1988

Nottingham Forest (England)

Matt Miazga

7/19/1995

Chelsea FC

Midfielder

Kellyn Acosta

7/25/1995

FC Dallas

Paul Arriola

02/05/1995

D.C. United

Michael Bradley

7/31/1987

Toronto FC

Joe Corona

07/09/1990

Club Tijuana (Mexico)

Dax McCarty

4/30/1987

Chicago Fire

Darlington Nagbe

7/19/1990

Portland Timbers

Chris Pontius

05/12/1987

Philadelphia Union

Forward

Juan Agudelo

11/23/1992

New England Revolution

Jozy Altidore

11/06/1989

Toronto FC

Clint Dempsey

03/09/1983

Seattle Sounders FC

Jordan Morris

10/26/1994

Seattle Sounders FC

Gyasi Zardes

09/02/1991

LA Galaxy

Best Football Players from the USA
Even though they do not have great players like the European players, they have some players that impress the world. Based on their history, Landon Donovan becomes one of their best players ever. He has ever elected as the best US Soccer Athlete of the Year 4 times and joined some European clubs including Everton and Bayern Munich. He also becomes the most scoring player so far for the USA football team. Besides that, there is also Cobi Jones where he gets the most caps in the national team. We also cannot forget Clint Dempsey that has ever had a good time with Fulham from 2007 to 2012.